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Twelve-time NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines and hubby Louis Barker are expecting their archetypal kid together.
Gaines confirmed the quality to Fox News Digital Saturday, adding the mates will welcome a babe girl successful September.
Riley Gaines visits "The Megyn Kelly Show" astatine the SiriusXM Studios May 20, 2024, successful New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
"Surprise! we're 26 weeks pregnant," she said successful a station connected Instagram. "God is SO bully each the time."
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The big of OutKick’s "Gaines for Girls" podcast joined Barker successful 2022, and they celebrated their three-year wedding day May 22.
Gaines has been a staunch advocator for pistillate athletes during the statement astir transgender athletes participating successful girls and women’s sports. She astir precocious sparred with seven-time Olympic golden medalist Simone Biles implicit a Minnesota softball squad that won a authorities title down the show of a trans player.
In effect to Gaines’ disapproval of a societal media station praising the title team, Biles posted a connection calling Gaines "truly sick" for her stance connected trans athletes. She adjacent launched a idiosyncratic onslaught connected Gaines' carnal appearance.
Riley Gaines, center, gestures portion speaking with a sheet during a roundtable lawsuit calling to support women's sports astatine The Captain's Club Golf & Event Center successful Grand Blanc Aug. 5, 2024. (Ryan Garza/USA Today Network)
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"You’re genuinely sick, each of this campaigning due to the fact that you mislaid a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles said, referencing Gaines competing against erstwhile UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas astatine the 2022 NCAA championships.
"You should beryllium uplifting the trans assemblage and possibly uncovering a mode to marque sports inclusive OR creating a caller avenue wherever trans consciousness harmless successful sports. Maybe a transgender class IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for definite is nary 1 successful sports is harmless with you around!!!!!"
The station went viral connected societal media, with Biles adding successful different post, "bully idiosyncratic your ain size, which would ironically beryllium a male."
Simone Biles earlier her level regular during the U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials astatine Target Center successful Minneapolis June 30, 2024. (Matt Krohn/USA Today Sports)
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Biles aboriginal issued an apology and said she was "not advocating for policies that compromise fairness successful women’s sports." Gaines responded by accepting the apology and inviting the Olympian to articulation the effort "to enactment just sports and a aboriginal for pistillate athletes."
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